Summa Technologiae [1964, 2013] by Lem, Stanislaw -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CONTENTS Translator’s Introduction 1. Dilemmas 2. Two Evolutions

Similarities Differences The First Cause Several Naïve Questions

3. Civilizations in the Universe

The Formulation of the Problem The Formulation of the Method The Statistics of Civilizations in the Universe A Catastrophic Theory of the Universe A Metatheory of Miracles Man’s Uniqueness Intelligence: An Accident or a Necessity? Hypotheses Votum Separatum Future Prospects

4. Intelectronics

Return to Earth A Megabyte Bomb The Big Game Scientific Myths The Intelligence Amplifier The Black Box The Morality of Homeostats The Dangers of Electrocracy Cybernetics and Sociology Belief and Information Experimental Metaphysics The Beliefs of Electric Brains The Ghost in the Machine The Trouble with Information Doubts and Antinomies

5. Prolegomena to Omnipotence

Before Chaos Chaos and Order Scylla and Charybdis: On Restraint The Silence of the Designer Methodological Madness A New Linnaeus: About Systematics Models and Reality Plagiarism and Creation On Imitology

6. Phantomology

The Fundamentals of Phantomatics The Phantomatic Machine Peripheral and Central Phantomatics The Limits of Phantomatics Cerebromatics Teletaxy and Phantoplication Personality and Information

7. The Creation of Worlds

Information Farming Linguistic Engineering The Engineering of Transcendence Cosmogonic Engineering

8. A Lampoon of Evolution

Reconstructing the Species Constructing Life Constructing Death Constructing Consciousness Error-based Constructs Bionics and Biocybernetics In the Eyes of the Designer Reconstructing Man Cyborgization The Autoevolutionary Machine Extrasensory Phenomena

Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author